LF Energy Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - July 21, 2026

Voting Representative Attendees

Strategic Member Representatives

  • Antonello Monti - RWTH Aachen University (Chair)
  • Art Pope - Google LLC
  • Boris Dolley - RTE (Reseau de Transport dElectricite)
  • Sachin Bakhar - Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc.
  • Moise Kameni - Hydro-Quebec
  • Jonas van den Bogaard - Alliander

Project Representatives

  • Clément Bouvier - OperatorFabric Representative
  • Sophie Frasnedo - PowSyBl Representative
  • Travis Sikes - OpenDSM Representative
  • Maarten Mulder - Grid eXchange Fabric (GXF) Representative

Non-Voting Project and Working Group Representatives

  • Arila Barnes - Hyphae Representative
  • Chris Xie - ORES Representative
  • Daniel Roesler - CDS WG1 & 2 Representative
  • Gabe Hege - Battery Data Alliance Representative
  • Hugo van de Pol - OpenLEADR Representative
  • Eloi Bail - SEAPATH Representative
  • Frederic Didier - OperatorFabric Representative
  • Karl Yang - ORES Representative
  • Mark Nigge-Uricher - SAM Representative
  • Michael Stuber - GEISA Representative
  • Nicolas Höning - FlexMeasures Representative
  • Richard Lam - GEISA Representative
  • Hugo van der Zwaag - Shapeshifter Representative
  • Robert Tusveld - GXF Representative
  • Stan Janssen - OpenLEADR Representative
  • Thana Paris - CitrineOS Representative
  • Tony Xiang - Power Grid Model Representative
  • Kjell Petter Myhren - p-SWAMP
  • Robert de Leeuw- Edge Flexibility and Interoperability SIG Representative
  • Thomas van Dijk - Grid Simulation and Modeling SIG
  • Milenko Tosic - LFE-SEF Representative
  • Ricardo Bessa - AINETUS Representative

LF Staff

  • Alex Thornton - LF Energy
  • Alexandre Parisot - LF Energy
  • Dan Brown - The Linux Foundation
  • John Mertic - The Linux Foundation
  • Yarille Ortiz - The Linux Foundation

Other Attendees

  • Sebastien Lussier - Hydro-Quebec
  • Alexis Frémond - RTE
  • Bruce Nordman
  • Ramin Bahmani
  • Guillaume Houle
  • Mohamed Gaha
  • Francois Miralles - Hydro-Quebec
  • Klaartje De Schepper
  • Joshua Ryder
  • Alex Smith
  • Thomas Wisbech

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Agenda

  • 5:00 pm - 5:15 pm - Opening and General Updates
    • TAC member updates and annual review date reminders
    • Resource Request review (#876)
    • Project Pipeline
    • Project Lifecycle Recommendations
      • SCDH move to Emeritus
      • Move to Incubation: Grid2Op #287 and OpenGridFM #260
    • TAC Chair/Vice Chair Election Update
    • Proposed Revisions to Project Lifecycle
    • Speakers from other LF projects on community building (#350)
  • 5:15 pm - 5:35 pm - New Project Proposal - RAVEN #764
  • 5:35 pm - 5:55 pm - Annual Review - SEAPATH #73
  • 5:55 pm - 6:15 pm - Annual Review - GXF #8
  • 6:15 pm - 6:25 pm - Marketing and PR Updates
  • 6:25 pm - 6:30 pm - Closing and Next Meeting

Notes

Opening and General Updates

John Mertic called the meeting to order and Yarille Ortiz recorded the minutes.

Alexandre Parisot reported that the AI SIG had a kickoff for the AI Governance framework and reviewed Grid2Op and OpenGridFM.

Eloi Bail discussed the SEAPATH resource request (#876) for a virtual CI environment. Mertic noted the TAC will review it for 7 business days before moving to an offline LFX vote.

Mertic provided project pipeline updates, noting that the SC Decarbonization Hub was recommended to move to Emeritus as it has no active maintainers. Sachin noted he lacked background on this and believed it might be incorrectly tagged to Shell; Mertic and Dan Brown confirmed it was contributed by Shell and agreed to connect offline.

Alexandre Parisot presented on behalf of Grid2Op to move the project to Incubation, noting it meets the criteria despite primarily having one core organization contributing. François Mirallès presented on behalf of OpenGridFM to move to Incubation, highlighting 15 contributors across 5 organizations and growing industrial customer engagement. Both projects will proceed to offline LFX voting.

Jonas van den Bogaard announced that both the TAC Chair and Vice Chair positions will be open for election, as he is moving to the Alliander Governing Board role and Nico Rikken will assume Alliander’s TAC representation. Mertic encouraged interested members to reach out.

Mertic introduced proposed revisions to the Project Lifecycle Guide (#846 and #847), adding a requirement for Sandbox projects to have at least one active maintainer, and implementing a 6-month timeline for accepted projects to complete onboarding. The TAC supported the changes and will initiate an LFX vote.

Mertic reminded the TAC to suggest speakers from other LF projects on community building (#350), or the issue will be closed by the end of September.

New Project Proposal: RAVEN #764

Guillaume Houle and Mohamed Gaha presented the proposal for RAVEN (noting a working name change to “Varen” due to copyright conflicts). They explained the project is an automated pipeline that transforms raw mobile LiDAR point clouds into GIS-ready digital representations for vegetation and asset recognition. They shared that the software achieves high accuracy (98% for wire detection) and is already in production at Hydro-Québec. Mertic stated an LFX vote would be initiated for Sandbox approval.

Annual Review: SEAPATH #73

Eloi Bail presented the SEAPATH annual review and formally requested to graduate the project. Bail highlighted the release of SEAPATH 2.0, its transfer to LF Europe, and operational deployments at RTE and Ecophi. He noted the project is 87% complete on its OpenSSF Gold Badge and is actively working on reproducible builds and automated testing suite requirements. The TAC agreed to initiate an LFX vote for Graduation, pending the completion of the final OpenSSF Gold Badge items.

Annual Review: GXF #8

Maarten Mulder presented the GXF annual review, requesting to move the project to Emeritus status. Mulder explained that while GXF was highly successful as Alliander’s first open-source project and continues to be supported internally, it did not achieve broader external adoption and its current architecture is aging. He noted current use cases will be supported through a newer, simpler architecture. The TAC supported initiating an LFX vote for the transition.

Marketing and PR Updates

Dan Brown shared that the LF Energy Summit agenda is live and registration is open. He encouraged attendees to utilize the marketing kit to help promote the event.

Closing and Next Meeting

Mertic reminded attendees of the upcoming joint Governing Board and TAC meeting in September at the LF Energy Summit. He thanked the attendees and concluded the meeting.

Mertic presented the agenda for the next meeting of the LF Energy TAC, scheduled for 8 September 2026 at 8:00 a.m. US Pacific Time/11:00 a.m. US Eastern Time/5:00 p.m. Central European Time.